Medical Xpress January 20, 2025
Smartwatches that can collect physical and physiological data on users could be potentially interesting tools in biomedicine to gain a better understanding of brain diseases and behavioral disorders and possible driver mutations related to these pathologies.
This is the finding of a study published in the journal Cell, and led by the co-author Mark Gerstein, from Yale University. The study includes the participation of Professor Diego Garrido MartÃn, from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics of the Faculty of Biology at the University of Barcelona.
Using smartwatch data from more than 5,000 adolescents, the research team could train artificial intelligence models to predict whether individuals had different psychiatric illnesses and found genes associated with these illnesses. The results suggest...
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